Telegram Tales are not restricted to paid customers

Telegram launched its Tales function to everybody immediately, following its availability to Premium users beginning final month. Like Facebook Messenger’s Stories, they seem as expandable bubbles above your dialog. Nevertheless, Telegram’s take is extra customizable, offering granular management of who sees uploaded posts and for the way lengthy. “Now whenever you meet folks on Telegram, you’ll see thrilling snapshots of their life — not only a few profile pictures,” the corporate wrote in a blog post immediately.

Launching alongside the messaging service’s tenth birthday, Telegram describes Tales as “by far the most-requested function” within the firm’s decade-long historical past. Its privateness controls embody visibility choices for everybody, all contacts, chosen contacts or shut pals.

Telegram’s Tales additionally allow you to cover your posts from contacts you don’t need to see, and Premium customers can select between six, 12, 24 and 48 hours of visibility for brand spanking new posts. As well as, submit creators can see an inventory of the Telegram customers who considered their content material. It additionally helps a BeReal-like dual-camera mode, letting you concurrently share pictures or movies captured by your cellphone’s entrance and rear sensors. The function additionally contains reactions, so viewers can add a coronary heart or select from “tons of” of different responses to posts.

A few of Tales’ extra superior controls are reserved for Premium subscribers ($5 per thirty days). Maybe most vital, paying customers’ posts show first, giving them extra publicity. Subscribers also can view others’ tales in stealth mode, hiding all traces of their go to from the creator. Moreover, subscribers get the beforehand talked about customized expiration choices, a everlasting view historical past (see who considered your posts even after they expire), the power to avoid wasting Tales to the gallery, “10 occasions longer” captions and the next allotment of day by day Tales (as much as 100).

Telegram Tales is scheduled to roll out to the service’s iOS and Android apps immediately.